Martial Arts DVD Videos Shotokan Karate Vol5. Okinawan grandmaster Gichin Funakoshi founded and introduced shotokan karate to Japan in the early 1920s. Consisting of hand and leg drills that help to build powerful self-defense techniques, Funakoshi sensei - a scholar and spiritual man - later incorporated the character-building traits of honor, dignity, humility, courage and the desire for exemplary personal conduct into this Okinawan combat art. One of the world's leading contemporary disciples of Funakoshi's shotokan karate is Tsutomu Ohshima sensei, whose headquarters are located in Southern California. In this five-part series, Tom Muzila - a pupil of Ohshima - presents the techniques, forms and strategies which make shotokan karate such an effective combat art.